Manifolding-book



Ila/625,89. Patented May I6, I899. J. A"; BRAKE.

MANIFOLDlNG BOOK.

(Application mad Feb. 18, 18 9.)

(No Model.)

WWas es CMM NlTED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN A. BRAKE, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

MANlFOLDlNG-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,139, dated May 16, 1899.

Application filed February 13,1899. Serial No; 705,400. (No model.)

T0 (1, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN A. BRAKE, acitizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding-Books; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in manifolding-books for use in stores and other places where it is desired to make more than one copy of orders or other memoranda. The new and essential features of the book consist, first, in the manner of attaching the carbon sheet or sheets, and, secondly, in the arrangement of the other sheets. It is customaryin making manifolding or sales books to provide a ledge or raised part at one end of the book and to secure the carbon-sheets to said ledge; but heretofore the carbon-sheets have been attached to the ledge at some point above the lower plane of the sheets, or, in other words, at some intervening point be tween the bottom or under side of said ledge 'and the upper side thereof; but never, so far as I am aware, have said carbon-sheets been attached or secured beneath the bottom of said ledge. In other instances the carbonsheets have been attached to the upper side of said ledge. The first-named Way of attaching said carbon-sheetsto wit, at some point above the bottom side of said le.dge has been found objectionable on account of the continual opening and closing of the order-sheets having a great tendency to make the carbon-sheets tear off at theledge. When the carbon-sheets are attached to the top of the ledge, their constant exposure to the air causes them to dry out and soon become use-' :the back 3 in other ways.

sheets. This arrangement is very inconvenient, because of the constant tendency of the cover to interfere with a free movement of the writers arm and the free ends of the order-sheets to curl up under the arm, and thus interfere with the use of the book.' The book comprised in the present invention is so constructed that the above difficulties are avoided.

Figure l is a perspective view of a manifolding-book made in accordance with my invention, the cover being thrown back and broken away. Fig. 2 is a side or edgeelevation with part of the cover broken away.

The order-sheets 1, with adjacent tissue sheets for a third copy, are sewed or bound at the end 2 to the back 3, or the said ordersheets may be bound together at said end and constitute a filler, which may be attached to As is clearly shown in Fig. 1, the printed headings on the ordersheets 1 read from the free ends of said sheets. Adjacent to the free ends of the order-sheets there is a ledge 4, secured to the back 3, and between the lower side of said ledge and the back of the book one or more carbon-sheets 5 are secured. This carbon-sheet is attached on a plane coinciding with-that of the extreme bottom sheet of the book. In order to bring said carbon sheet or sheets up and over the order-sheets in the position shown in the drawings or any other position above its level, it is essential that the carbon-sheets be somewhat longer than the order-sheets. The carbon sheet or sheets thus attached beneath theledge and used in the manner described are always protected from the air, and the free ends of the sheets 1 need not come in contact with said carbon-sheets when opening and closing said sheetsl. It will be observed there is a sufficient space 6 between the free ends of the order-sheets and the ledge 4; to enable, when said carbon-sheets are drawn over the ledge in the direction of the cover, the said order-sheets to be opened and closed without coming in contact with any part of said carbon-sheets. The cover 7 is a continuation of the back 3 and closes over the ledge. The said cover, it will be noted, opens in a direction away from the writer. Therefore it sheets beginning at thebound ends of said will not be in the way of the writers arm. Also the ends of the order-sheets nearest the writer are bound, so they will not curl up.

I claim as my invention 1. In a manifolding-book, the combination with the back and cover, of the order-sheets having ends bound to the end of said back, and their free ends adjacent to the bend of thecover, a ledge over which said cover bends,

ends of said order-sheets being adjacent to the attached end of the cover, and the printed headings thereon being so arranged on said sheets that the writing will be in a direction away from the said free ends, a ledge adjacent to said free ends, and one or more carbon-sheetsattached between the lower side of said ledge and the back of the book, and a cover for said book adapted to be opened in a direction away from the Writer, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. BRAKE.

Witnesses: WILLIAM POHLMANN, R. J. MOOARTY. 

